Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Beautiful Ceramics @ Nom Living, Columbia Road

Last weekend, John and I went to Columbia Road Flower Market and found these beautiful ceramic mugs at Nom Living - one of my favorite homeware shops in London. Crafted by artisans in Vietnam and Cambodia, these mugs are made using a specialist mixed clay, which gives them their wonderful marbled effect. No two mugs are the same.

We immediately gravitated towards these mugs when we saw them in store, along with the accompanying teapot (which we didn't end up getting). I've wanted to replace our mis-matched mugs for ages, but didn't find any that really called my name - until I walked into Nom Living that afternoon.

I love how unique and pretty these are - I can imagine serving them to guests and using them ourselves as well.

If you haven't been to Nom Living before, I'd highly recommend a visit. Their little dipping bowls double as terrific trinket dishes (I keep one in every room because I have a tendency to remove all my jewelry at the end of the day in whatever room I happen to be standing in!) and the serving dishes are really gorgeous pieces to have in your home.

Thanks, Jasmin! I didn't either ... until now! I feel like the ones out there on the high street are a little uninspired at the moment. They're either all Scandi-cool (which I LOVE, since that's been the main style of my interior decorating so far, but it's just a little too ubiquitous) or cutesy, which I loathe! Haha, it's a challenge to find the right ones.

I'm so glad you like them, Gemma! It's definitely worth paying the store (and the market!) a visit. But maybe first thing when they open or nearly when the market is closed on Sundays, to avoid the rage-inducing crowds!

I love them! It kind of drives me crazy that all of our mugs are so mis-matched. I'm keeping my college one and John can keep his Leicester City Football one, but then that's it! Everything else has to go.